Atropine was previously included in international resuscitation guidelines for use in cardiac arrest associated with asystole and PEA, but was removed from these guidelines in 2010 due to a lack of evidence for its effectiveness.
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The goal is avoidance of infarction, heart failure, and / or lethal arrhythmias ( ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, asystole, or pulseless electrical activity ), so ultimately to restore normal sinus rhythm.
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"The question then becomes, How many minutes of asystole do you need ? " said Dr . Baruch Brody, the director of the center for medical ethics at the Baylor University in Houston.
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Because of the effects of adenosine on AV node-dependent SVTs, adenosine is considered a class V cardiovert an abnormal rhythm, it is normal for the heart to enter ventricular asystole for a few seconds.
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Among the many alternative causes are episodes of isolated arrhythmias which degenerated into lethal VF and asystole, and various unnoticed, possibly asymptomatic cardiac congenital defects of the vessels, chambers, or valves of the heart.
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The third patient was electrocuted, and fell into asystole on the way in, declared DOA . The fourth patient has smoke inhalation, relatively minor burns and a pneumothorax, and is set up for a chest tube.
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A frequent type of sycnope, termed vasovagal syncope is originated by intense "'cardioinhibition "', mediated by a sudden vagal reflex, that causes transitory cardiac arrest by asystole and / or transient total atrioventricular block.
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The organization recognizes the legitimate debate in Orthodox Jewish law surrounding brain stem death and offers a unique organ donor card that allows people to choose between donating organs at brain stem death or alternatively at cessation of heart beat ( asystole ).
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Using vasopressin instead improved the chances of reaching a hospital alive by about 40 percent, and tripled the chances of going home from the hospital, in patients with the most deadly type of cardiac arrest, asystole, where all heart activity has stopped.
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"If truly confirmed by another study it would be a major advancement in the treatment of asystole, " said Dr . Muhamed Saric, director of echocardiography and cardiac stress testing at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark.
